Overview
- An interdisciplinary approach to the intersection of philosophy of language, philosophy of law, and the cognitive sciences
- Sophisticated in-depth analyses of legal discourse and adjudication from pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and legal theory
- An international group of authors including contextualists, literalists, legal positivists, natural law, hermeneutical authors and other schools of thought
Part of the book series: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology (PEPRPHPS, volume 7)
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Philosophers of law have always shown a keen interest in cognitive science and philosophy of language in order to find tools to solve their problems: recently this interest was reciprocated and scholars from cognitive science and philosophy of language now look to the law as a testing ground for their theses.
Using the most sophisticated tools available to pragmatics, sociolinguistics, cognitive sciences and legal theory, an interdisciplinary, international group of authors address questions like: Does legal interpretation differ from ordinary understanding? Is the common pragmatic apparatus appropriate to legal practice? What can pragmatics teach about the concept of law and pervasive legal phenomena such as testimony or legal disagreements?
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Keywords
- Grice and the law
- combinatory vagueness in law
- communication theory of lawmaking
- defeasibility and pragmatic indeterminacy
- legal disagreement and new theories of reference
- legal interpretation
- legal positivism
- legal texts and meaning
- metalinguistic negotiations
- negative polarity in contractual offers
- non-literal legislative speech
- philosophy and legal adjudication
- philosophy of language and law
- pragmatic aspects of social intelligence
- pragmatics and legal adjudication
- pragmatics of legal discourse
- pragmatics of meaning and morality
- rhetorical systems and legal interpretation
Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pragmatics and Law
Book Subtitle: Philosophical Perspectives
Editors: Alessandro Capone, Francesca Poggi
Series Title: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30385-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-30383-3Published: 11 May 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80796-6Published: 27 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-30385-7Published: 02 May 2016
Series ISSN: 2214-3807
Series E-ISSN: 2214-3815
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 267
Topics: Semantics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Law